Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand

"“Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.”"
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"“Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.”"
Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged
"“I am, therefore I'll think.”"
Ayn Rand
"“I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.”"
Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged
"“Who is John Galt?”"
Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged
"“Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.”"
Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged
"“I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.”"
Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged
"“The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”"
Ayn Rand
"Upper classes are a nation's past the middle class is its future."
Ayn Rand
"Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law."
Ayn Rand
"Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone."
Ayn Rand
"Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision."
Ayn Rand
"Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men."
Ayn Rand
"If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject."
Ayn Rand
"Money is the barometer of a society's virtue."
Ayn Rand
"Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter."
Ayn Rand
"So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?"
Ayn Rand
"Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason."
Ayn Rand
"Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims."
Ayn Rand
"A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others."
Ayn Rand
"The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it."
Ayn Rand
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